by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
The Supreme Court today (order list) issued “GVR’s” — granted certiorari, vacated judgment, and remanded to lower courts for reconsideration in light of NYSRPA v Bruen — in four cases that had upheld bans on open carry, magazines, and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
If you have a California CCW, or if you have applied for one, then you were doxed yesterday and today by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his merry band at DOJ. “Doxed” means a great deal of your personal, confidential information was released to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, News & Commentary
Last Friday, one day after the Supreme Court’s landmark NYSRPA v Bruen decision (analyzed fully here), California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta rushed out a bizarre letter offering inept guidance to various state officials involved in issuing concealed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Now that I’ve read the full majority opinion and concurrences, I have a few comments and predictions to make regarding NYSRPA v Bruen (I’ve omitted citations, so please just go to the actual opinion and use CTRL-F if you need to find something). I ignored...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 23, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
In a blockbuster decision released minutes ago, the Supreme Court of the United States has held with a solid 6-3 majority in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, that New York’s statutory restriction against bearing arms...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
59% of Ukrainians who took part in a poll through the Dіia application are in favor of allowing all citizens to have a gun and carry it in public places. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov announced this on Facebook, Ukrainian...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
This month, June of 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of NYSRPA v Bruen, will hold that you have a fundamental individual right to carry a firearm for self-defense outside of your home, in public. Not that you don’t already have that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 28, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection
In Charleston, West Virginia, a woman licensed to carry a pistol used it to stop a man who was shooting up a high school graduation party. The man was speeding at an apartment complex and was asked by party attendees to slow down, because of kids nearby. Apparently...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2022 | Blog, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
[UPDATE — POLL RESULTS: 59% of Ukrainians supported right to carry gun in public] The Ukrainian application “Diia” (digital documents and government services) launched a survey on the attitude of Ukrainians to the legalization of weapons for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: If I’d have held off on posting a bit, the title might have been “Cops Kill 19 Kids and 3 Adults in Uvalde, TX”. So much info has come out putting cops in a bad light here, preventing not just parents entering but even preventing a border...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 11, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
Good tidings from the Second Amendment Foundation: A three-judge panel for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down a California prohibition on sales of semiautomatic rifles to young adults in the 18-20-year-old range, remanding the case back...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, WorldExaminer.com
Since the drive-by terrorist shootings in Bnei Brak a couple of days ago, which killed five people and ended with the terrorist’s death in a gun battle with two police officers, one of whom was killed, Israel has decided to be more proactive in defending against...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
Mass Shooting First, the mass shooting scenario: Would George Washington run to the fire? Or would he simply call 911 and run to safety? None of us can know in advance whether we will be capable and willing to deliver heroism in such a situation. We can assume our...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
Ukraine has replaced COVID in the news and it hits me personally because my wife’s entire family lives in eastern Ukraine. A nephew over there is like a brother to my daughter, due to the many summers she spent there as a child. Vigano Spreads False Russian...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
It’s February 2022 and Ukraine has replaced SARS-CoV-2 as the focus of all news media. My wife is from Ukraine so for many years I blogged on Ukraine on my old World Examiner blog here. Recently I repurposed the WorldExaminer.com domain to point to a page on...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 17, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Honor, Life
Want to stop COVID fast? You have bullets enough. In this post I’ll expand on a great article with a brilliant title, “The Pandemic of the Unarmed,” by Ian Underwood over at Granite Grok. In that article, prompted by Quebec’s plans to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
The City of Morro Bay has, by a unanimous 5-0 vote of its City Council, enacted Ordinance No. 644, mandating firearm storage effective next week starting October 28, 2021. The new law provides, in pertinent part: No person shall keep a firearm within a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2021 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Tax Planning
Check out our new radio ad, commencing today on the Andy Caldwell Show, K-NEWS 98.5 FM…best talk radio on the Central Coast! Posted with permission of the Andy Caldwell Show and Dimes Media. Click here: Script: Ronald Reagan warned us: “Freedom is never more...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro
The well-respected Recoil Magazine published an article of mine in their latest issue, which went on sale last week. Whoopee! Except they cut out my main point (!) and since i wrote the entire article submission to support that point, it reads like a jumbled...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 2, 2020 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
[For other examples of kids using guns in self-defense, click here.] Kyle is being charged, purely out of political expediency, despite ample video evidence of valid cause for self-defense in each of the three shootings. Kyle is a lifeguard who showed up to help...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 29, 2020 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
The federal Department of Homeland Security has declared gun stores and shooting ranges to be part of our nationwide “essential critical infrastructure workforce” in sharp contradiction to what many localities are doing in shutting down gun stores...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2020 | Defensive Gun Use
Next time some politician says you should block your kids from accessing your firearms, even if trained, consider this: Deputies arrived and found an adult male with a gunshot wound to his lower back. Deputies learned that the subject that had been shot was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 29, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, FREE content, guntrust.org members
[The video of this shooting is disappearing from the internet so I am posting it for students — take advantage of my offer of virtually unlimited free firearm training for you and everyone at your California place of worship.] The shooting occurred today...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 23, 2019 | Family Protection, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
New Puerto Rico law, Act No. 168, greatly expands gun rights in the US territory effective next week on January 1, 2020. The law adopts a “shall-issue” type of concealed carry permit issuance and cites specifically the need to comply with Supreme...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 22, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Training
I regret that i lack time to blog more Defensive Gun Use (DGU) stories, even some interesting ones, but i cannot let 2019 close without blogging this recent story about a woman eight months pregnant who used an AR-15 to defend her husband and 11-year-old...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 18, 2019 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
Several decades ago, an effort to add gun training to California curriculum was opposed by pediatricians here. But other states are discovering the value of this training: Then again, it might. In much of the country, the words guns and schools do tend to go...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2019 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Florida now joins several other states in allowing teachers to carry. Smart teachers will step up and do so. Smart school districts will make it a job...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 4, 2019 | Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Incapacity Planning
Enactment of AB 1292 has made estate planning much easier for California gun owners. Read our in-depth article here before access is restricted to members...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
An attempted robbery suspect was shot to death after police say he beat a movie theater manager with a bat….. The manager reportedly pulled out a gun and shot and killed the man who was beating her. Story...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 7, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use
A 14-year-old girl fired a 9mm pistol at someone looking to break into her home, according to the Lawrence County Constable Association and confirmed by the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office. Story here. See our list of similar cases of kids using guns for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 15, 2019 | Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Incapacity Planning
UPDATE: See link below this article for updated analysis. *** When Governor Newsom approved AB 1292 on July 12, he made estate planning easier for California gun owners. Why would Sacramento Democrats make death easier for us? I can only speculate, but I’m guessing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Not technically a defensive gun use, but kid commando gets even more bonus points for using close contact weapon: “You hit them in the back of the head with a machete?” the 911 operator asked after Braydon told the story. “Did you see if he was bleeding at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Trenton, MO, police officer Jasmine Diab, 24, a single mother of a five-year-old girl, was shot in the abdomen by a prisoner she was transporting. A small group of concerned citizens, one of whom was armed, was able to rescue the officer and subdue the suspect...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 24, 2019 | Firearm Training
Here is a list (current as of March 2019) of those who have passed Front Sight’s Handgun Combat Master skills test: 1. Dr. Ignatius Piazza (Glock 22)—Cert Date Unknown2. Mr. Mark Flinn (Glock 21)—21 Sept 19973. Mr. Lawrence (Lenny) Boulton (Glock 22)—21...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
And these are just the ones picked up by media: Source: Sixty-seven defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over the past three months – Crime Prevention Research CenterCrime Prevention Research Center
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
[UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The article linked below is incorrect — due to some very unclear media accounts. Apparently there was an armed white guy who failed to respond, but story here indicates it was another armed citizen, who happens to be BLACK, that actually...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Good shoot: A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire. The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning, Tax Planning
Here is a great little slideshow on top estate planning priorities to avoid tragedy and missed opportunity (“Top 10 Dangers Facing Senior Citizen Clients”) which I summarize below (adding a little California-relevant detail of my own), with a link...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 1, 2018 | Firearm Training
On the importance of dialing 1911 prior to 911: In modern times, we know that people shot with handguns have an 85% chance of survival, provided they get medical treatment. The chances are far lower with shotgun or rifle, but even then modern medicine can...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2018 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Someone pulls out and activates a chainsaw on BART while verbalizing a threat of massacre, and you respond by posting a video on Twitter? and BART finds out about it because of your hashtag #BART, apparently because no one else called 911 either? #SMH! “I...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 24, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
HALF!? This is far too great an omission to be accidental. This false report has been used to minimize the importance of carry (including at an “active shooter” class i took, given by an anti-CCW former cop). The utility of concealed carry is much higher...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 21, 2018 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
Here are a few notes from my first experience with Handgun Combat Master Prep (HCMP) in a 9/26-27 private training at Front Sight, having recently qualified to take it. (They require that you first take Advanced Tactical Handgun (ATH), and to take ATH you must...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 18, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Amazing. After decades of advocating gun control “if it saves one life” while ignoring millions of defensive gun uses, the leftist media actually inks a headline braying that one cop — saved by an armed citizen who joined the fray —...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 13, 2018 | Firearm Training
Get virtually unlimited free training at the world’s largest shooting school (often called the “Disneyland for gun owners”) simply by attending our free estate planning seminars. Here is mid-2018 status of construction (now fifty...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Hopefully there was some justification for shooting in the head (other than “I didn’t train enough”): Investigators said it all started when the man’s wife pulled into their driveway Tuesday night. Then the two armed suspects jumped out and tried to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2018 | Firearm Training
They bring up some very good points in favor of 9mm, but with our CA roster I was limited to .45 if I wanted a quality all-steel Wilson Combat CQB Compact. Suppressor bans are not the only form of gun control causing injury over time. (Have to say, though, that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Girl could barely hold on to tree, she was up so long (half hour before 911 called). Why didn’t the mother have her own AR, or a pistol? According to the frantic 911 call made by the teen’s mother, there was more than one alligator involved. The...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
More on the Tumwater incident: “As a volunteer firefighter I have received active shooter training,” George explained. “I was sure what I heard was gunshots.” Police say 44-year old Tim Day went on a shooting and carjacking spree. He tried to carjack a couple...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
A couple of weeks ago I took a class covering armed defense in carjackings: Advanced Tactical Handgun (or Driver’s Ed, Front Sight style). Two armed citizens were credited with taking action Sunday after a carjacking suspect went on a rampage in Washington...